City of Ember and How We Survive

Sixth and Seventh grade book club was really fun this week. We discussed The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau which is great book if you haven't read it. It was compared to The Giver and Maze Runner. After the book discussion we played a game of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Game. It gives you topics of worst case scenarios like, what do you do if the breaks go out in your car? and what is the proper way to jump off a train? It then gives you three choices of what to do. Some of them just seem silly while sometimes more then one of them seems possible. You then guess which option is the correct choice. This is a game from 2002, so I didn't come up with it myself, it was something I got when I was in sixth grade myself. But the kids and I had a lot of fun guessing and coming up with our own solutions to the scenarios. This is the last book of the year, can't wait to start again in the fall!

Book Scavenger and the Hunt

For fourth grade book club this month we talked about Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman. The book is named after a game that's kind of like a special version of a book scavenger hunt where people hide books and then other people try to find them with only one clue to guide them. The book is about a new game from the creator of the Book Scavenger game. To go with this we did a book scavenger hunt. It had things like find a mystery or find a book with a character the same age as you, stuff like that. The kids had to find the books and bring them to me. Then I had them put the books back afterward, in the correct spot, and I watched to make sure they put the book where it belonged. The kids had fun running around trying to best each other. This is the last book of the year for fourth graders, next set of book clubs will be for the summer reading book groups. Can't wait!